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May 2026: Incentives Update & New Court Proposal on Gnosis Chain

May 2026: Incentives Update & New Court Proposal on Gnosis Chain

Alongside the usual incentives recap, the community can now review and discuss a proposal for a new xDai Curation Court with Hidden Voting on Gnosis Chain.

1. Incentives

All pools, caps, and eligibility rules remain unchanged for May.

Explorer Tagging Requirement (ATR and Token)

In order to be rewarded, entries on Address Tag Registry and Token Registry must not already be tagged on the respective block explorer:

Ethereum Mainnet → etherscan.io
Avalanche C Chain → snowscan.xyz
zkSync → era.zksync.network
Scroll → scrollscan.com
Gnosis → gnosisscan.io
Celo → celoscan.io
Base → basescan.org
Linea → lineascan.build
Solana → solscan.io
Arbitrum One → arbiscan.io
OP Mainnet → optimistic.etherscan.io
Polygon → polygonscan.com
megaETH → mega.etherscan.io

Notes

  • CDN entries are not subject to this requirement
  • Even if your ATR or Token Registry entry is not eligible for rewards, it can still be accepted if compliant with policy
  • Every valid contribution strengthens the ecosystem

Transaction Data Refinements

We continue refining how transaction data is handled:

  • Solana normalization: transaction counts are adjusted to better align with EVM chains, preventing inflated activity from dominating the distribution
  • Failed transaction filtering: improved APIs now allow us to exclude failed transactions from reward calculations

2. Incentives Parameters

Address Tag Registry (ATR)

Pool: 100,000 PNK (93,000 for submissions; 7,000 for removals)
Max reward per successful submission: 500 PNK
Max reward per successful removal: 500 PNK

ERC20, ERC721, and EIP-1167 submissions remain excluded from incentives (but still accepted if compliant)

Submissions:

reward_per_submission = reward_pool * ((1 / (2 * total_submissions)) +(txns_with_contract / (2 * total_txns_with_all_contracts)))

Removals:

reward_per_removal = reward_pool / total_removals

Token Registry

Pool: 100,000 PNK (93,000 for submissions; 7,000 for removals)
Max reward per successful submission: 500 PNK
Max reward per successful removal: 500 PNK

Solana tokens must have at least 5,000 holders to be eligible.

Submissions:

reward_per_submission = ( (token_tx / total_txns_with_all_contracts) * 0.1 * reward_pool ) +( (sqrt(token_tx) / sum_sqrt_total_txns_with_all_contracts) * 0.9 * reward_pool )

The formula remains the same in structure, but square root weighting now has greater importance. This adjustment reduces the dominance of very large tokens while preserving rewards for smaller but active assets.

Removals:

reward_per_removal = reward_pool / total_removals

CDN Registry

Pool: 100,000 PNK (93,000 for submissions; 7,000 for removals)
Max reward per successful submission: 500 PNK
Max reward per successful removal: 500 PNK

All compliant submissions are rewarded.

Submissions:

reward_per_submission = reward_pool * ((1 / (2 * total_submissions)) +(txns_with_contract / (2 * total_txns_with_all_contracts)))

Removals:

reward_per_removal = reward_pool / total_removals

Address Tag Queries (ATQ)

Submissions pool: 60,000 PNK (max 3,000 PNK per submission)
Removals pool: 6,500 PNK (max 500 PNK per removal)
Eligible chains: All

Formula (valid for both submissions and removals):

reward = reward_pool / successful_requests

3. Governance Update: New Court Proposal on Gnosis Chain

A new governance proposal is now live on the forum: KIP-87 — xDai Curation Court with Hidden Voting.

The proposal introduces a parallel version of the current xDai Curation Court on Gnosis Chain, with commit-and-reveal voting enabled.

Why Hidden Voting?

Following the large increase in disputes on Gnosis during 2025, the community gathered enough data to analyze voting behavior at scale.

One recurring pattern was vote influence: visible voting may encourage jurors to follow previous votes instead of making fully independent decisions.

Hidden voting aims to:

  • Reduce vote influence and herding behavior
  • Encourage more independent juror reasoning
  • Improve perceived legitimacy of rulings by the submitters!
  • Test whether hidden voting changes dispute outcomes over time

This proposal does not replace the existing court. It creates an additional option that can be observed and compared over time.

Voting Options

  • Yes, create the court
  • No, rework proposal

The proposal will move to vote in approximately 7 days, and community members are encouraged to participate in the forum discussion.

Forum discussion:
https://forum.kleros.io/t/kip-87-court-proposal-on-gnosis-chain-xdai-curation-court-with-hidden-voting/

TL;DR

  • Incentives unchanged for May
  • Explorer tagging requirement unchanged for ATR and Token
  • Transaction refinements continue (Solana normalization + failed tx filtering)
  • Token formula updated to increase square root weighting (0.1 linear / 0.9 sqrt)
  • New governance proposal: xDai Curation Court with Hidden Voting
  • Community discussion open now, vote expected in ~7 days

More updates are coming. Keep curating.